A mother has spoken of her horror after a nine-year-old boy threatened to stab her daughter with a knife in the canteen of a Hull primary school.

The girl's mother told Hull Live how the boy first threatened to stab the little girl with a butter knife from the school canteen before saying he was going to get a bigger knife from home and return the following day to stab her.

Lisa, 42, says he made the menacing threats after her daughter - who is a lunchtime monitor at the primary school - because she had simply told him to stand in line quietly.

A picture posed by models of mother and daughter

She said: "The little lad was messing about and she told him to get back in the line and from what I gather a bit of an argument broke out between them and then both sets of friends joined in.

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"He said to her, 'I will stab you in a minute' and picked up the butter knife from the table.

"My daughter said something about how he wouldn't be able to hurt her with a knife like that. He then responded by saying he would bring a proper knife from home the next day and stab her with it."

The incident was reported to staff at the school and Lisa says staff dealt with it "accordingly". The boy's parents were spoken to and his bag was checked the following day.

Lisa said: "I know kids these days can have arguments all the time but it's what he said to her that bothered me. How do I know he wasn't going to go home and get the knife and go through with what he said?

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Lisa has spoken out about what happened in support of Hull Live's #NoMoreKnives campaign.

Working in partnership with Humberside Police and Kayleigh Pepper, whose brother Rich was stabbed to death in east Hull in 2015, the campaign aims to educate young people on the dangers of carrying a knife.